Graduate Program in Regional Development
Master’s and Doctorate Degree
Concentration area and lines of research
Managing Organizations and Development
Research line: Business Management
It covers studies about territory development possibilities focusing on intra and interorganizational arrangements and relationships, competitiveness, strategies and organizational and territorial changes. It covers topics related to knowledge management, innovation and entrepreneurship, management of organizational systems, decision-making processes and decision support systems, business, markets and interinstitutional relations, as well as governance and social responsibility.
Research line: Public Policies and Social Management
It covers a set of topics related to the study of conceptions of State and society and the planning, management and analysis of public policies. It addresses the themes of governance, intra- and intergovernmental relations, political-administrative decentralization, and the organizational architecture of the State apparatus in its different spheres and powers, giving emphasis to new institutional arrangements in the management of public services, and to issues of local power as well as urban and regional planning. It discusses also the territorial governance and social management of development, stressing the systems and networks of participation and social control in a perspective of deliberative democracy.
Research line: Territorial Development and Management of Production Systems
It covers themes related to the study of interactions between global processes and trends, and local and regional development dynamics; the characteristics of the existing production systems, their market dynamics, their internal and external economic relations and their articulation in production chains or local production arrangements; potentiality, viability and sustainability of the different Production Systems, as well as their economic, social and environmental impacts on local and regional development. Analysis and interpretation of reality, elaboration of strategies and planning of intervention actions in the processes of territorial development, environmental management and production systems.